Charles Lane | Olympics are corrupt, should be abolished

2:54 AM,
Jan. 23, 2014

Vladimir Putin's despotism targets gay people.

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Charles Lane
| The Washington Post

The 2014 Olympic Winter Games haven't started, but they've already produced their first scandal.

The host country's president, Vladimir Putin, runs a notoriously despotic regime whose victims include not only independent journalists and political opponents but also gay men and lesbians, who have recently been targeted by a law prohibiting "propaganda of nontraditional sexual practices" among minors.